The Lindahl News: Abroad Edition

Early in the morning on Monday, December 3rd, Wes and I traveled with students via bus to Stockholm.  This time our group was smaller than usual as only the College Line American students took this trip. By now, we have seen what this group is like - they are wonderful students, to be sure.  They show up when and where they are supposed to show up, they are a group who genuinely seem to care for/about each other and flexibility appears not to be a problem.   Once we got to our hotel (Yay! A hotel, not a hostel for these two geezers - a complete bathroom in our room!), we quickly dropped off our baggage and headed to Gamla Stan .  We were meeting up with our tour guide, George, at 3:00.  As you can see by the following pictures, darkness was coming earlier each day. I wanted to get a quick shot of our group before the sun was totally gone. I love you guys! George met us in Stortorget - the oldest square in Stockholm. How fun is it to see a Ju...

See the look on our faces?  It's just lovely to see our daughter and two oldest grand-daughters when they fly to Stockholm from Chicago! Anne was brave to travel with E and M as Dad stayed behind with their youngest daughter, H. Upon pickup from the airport, we drove to Stockholm to look for a parking garage. As E is a reader, she noticed the P-Hus (parking garage) and we all had a good laugh!  Add to this that enter is infart and exit is utfart ...oh, my! We were all cracking up...jet lag made everything even that more hilarious.   Once we calmed down, we walked to nearby Gamla Stan. This is the old part of Stockholm and it is so charming with cobblestone streets, cute shops and old buildings.  The girls had heard so much about fika , and it was time to dive right in to this most charming of all Swedish customs!  This was a fika-to-end-all-fikas as we let the girls pick anything they wanted as well as hot cocoa for some and ...